I really like a lot of individual elements you have here and as a resource management lover myself, I really liked the design of a game where you are managing which of your workers are collecting resources and which are refining those resources. I really could only understand how our dear panda chef worked and sometimes other critters would just vanish out of the castle for me. I wish there was some extra player feedback:
- some text that appears when you hover over critters that tell you what they do (what resources do they collect, what do they make, etc. etc.)
- some visual indicator when a resource changes ("+10 wood" or the number flashes green when it goes up, for example)
I really love games like this and I would love to see you develop it more! It would help if critters other than the panda generated XP (maybe they did, but I was unable to get them to work) I can't imagine the level of detail the AI programming in the game right now, so you should be proud for getting that done during the jam!